Overview

Mezzanine is a content management platform built using the Django
framework. It is BSD licensed and designed to provide both a consistent
interface for managing content, and a simple architecture that makes diving
in and hacking on the code as easy as possible.

Mezzanine resembles tools like Wordpress, with an intuitive
interface for managing pages and blog posts. Mezzanine takes a different
approach from other Django applications in this space like Pinax or
Mingus that glue together a lot of reusable apps, instead opting to
provide most of its functionality included with the project by default.

The createdb command performs the same task as Django's syncdb
command, and also handles setting the initial migration state for South.

You should then be able to browse to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ and log
in using the default account (username: admin, password: default). If
you'd like to specify a different username and password during set up, simply
exclude the --noinput option included above when running createdb.

Contributing

Mezzanine is an open source project that is managed using both Git and
Mercurial version control systems. These repositories are hosted on both
Github and Bitbucket respectively, so contributing is as easy as
forking the project on either of these sites and committing back your
enhancements.

Please note the following points around contributing:

Contributed code must be written in the existing style. This is as simple as following the Django coding style and most importantly PEP 8.

Run the tests before committing your changes. If your changes causes the tests to break, they won't be accepted.

If you're adding new functionality, you must include basic tests and documentation.

Third-party Modules

The following modules have been developed outside of Mezzanine. If you
have developed a module to integrate with Mezzanine and would like it
listed here, send an email to the mezzanine-users mailing list.